splitByPattern {R.utils}R Documentation

Splits a single character string by pattern

Description

Splits a single character string by pattern. The main difference compared to strsplit() is that this method also returns the part of the string that matched the pattern. Also, it only takes a single character string.

Usage

## Default S3 method:
splitByPattern(str, pattern, ...)

Arguments

str A single character string to be split.
pattern A regular expression character string.
... Not used.

Value

Returns a named character vector with names equal to "TRUE" if element is a pattern part and "FALSE" otherwise.

Author(s)

Henrik Bengtsson (http://www.braju.com/R/)

See Also

Compare to strsplit().

Examples


rspCode <- "<body>Hello <%=\"world\"%></body>"
rspParts <- splitByPattern(rspCode, pattern="<%.*%>")
cat(rspCode, "\n")
print(rspParts)

[Package R.utils version 1.1.7 Index]